Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203985 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Working Paper No. 120
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
Abstract The analysis of the international migration flows, their determinants and the impact on host countries' labour markets is of great interest in the context of current European developments. This paper analyses the role of EU labour market mobility, specifically cross-border mobility by migrants, in labour market adjustments and, vice versa, how labour market developments across the EU in terms of relative wage differences, differences in activity rates, in labour productivity differentials and in human capital structures affect labour mobility. The analysis is carried out in the context of estimating a panel Vector Auto Regressive (pVAR) model involving bilateral net migration flows and cross-country differences in the above variables. It is estimated for the period 2000 to 2012, thus capturing also the two waves of accession of Central and Eastern European new Member States (NMS). The estimations are performed for cross-border mobility patterns for the EU as a whole, as well as for the migration patterns between NMS and OMS, thus analysing the changes which the integration of new Member States may have caused to labour market and mobility dynamics in the European Union.
Subjects: 
labour mobility
determinants of migration flows
European Union
new Member States
econometric analysis of labour mobility
panel VAR model
push and pull factors of migration
JEL: 
F22
J61
J62
J63
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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